Ebbingauz Herman

(24.01.1850 - 26.02.1909) - German psychologist, one of the founders of experimental psychology. He played an opponent in. Dilthey. Implemented a pilot study of memory based on memorization of syllables (1885). Developed several techniques for studying memory processes. He opened a number of phenomena psychology of memory, in particular, 'edge factor', that is more effective memorizing the first and last syllables of a number of. Construct curves of learning and forgetting, which show that these processes are nonlinear. Also found that meaningful material is remembered better than meaningless.